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M 2.7ml

12 km NNE of Healy, Alaska

· 7.9 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
7.9 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Denali Borough, 65 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1983 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 63.9624, -148.8703. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 65 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 139 km (86 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.5 17 km E of Ferry, Alaska
  2. 1.9 13 km NE of Healy, Alaska
  3. 1.7 36 km ENE of Ferry, Alaska
  4. 2.5 8 km N of Healy, Alaska
  5. 1.8 13 km SE of Clear, Alaska, Alaska
  6. 2.9 23 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  7. 1.8 7 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  8. 1.8 9 km NNE of Healy, Alaska
  9. 2.5 12 km ESE of Healy, Alaska
  10. 1.7 3 km ESE of Healy, Alaska
  11. 2.1 13 km NE of Healy, Alaska
  12. 1.6 24 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  13. 1.8 21 km W of Healy, Alaska
  14. 1.9 3 km SW of Healy, Alaska
  15. 1.6 3 km SE of Healy, Alaska

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2018-01-19 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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